Embracing the chunky

I seem to have spent a lot of time over the last year or so fighting my tendency to produce what was once described here as “chunky” pieces.Well, I decided, for this piece at least, to give up that fight and just “go with it”, or, as someone sagely pointed out to me, to “play to my strength”. It was quite liberating actually – those usual challenges in my head, such as ”that’ll be really heavy” or ”too much visible end-grain” were met with ”yeah, so? I don’t care” answers.The design itself is based, as usual at the moment, around triangles – I’ve been trying to work out how to do these kind of triangle legs for a while now, and then it suddenly struck me to use inverse triangle cross pieces on the bottom – obvious when you look at it, but is just hadn’t popped into my head until then – I think you’re going to see this in a few more pieces from me shortly.

Originally it was going to be a stool, and it still is if you chose to sit on it.But it’s also a table.I was trial fitting it together and I couldn’t bear to cut out the “normal” hand-hold in the middle that you might expect in a stool.Clamping was, as usual a challenge – here you can see every clamp I possess bar one being used to clamp together just one side – there are a lot of wood meetings going on…

Claw-dee-puss likes it, as you can see in picture 2, as did the wife who was in a very good mood, obviously, when she said ”It’s lovely – one of the best things you’ve made”

Ash and Jatoba. 49cm x 28cm x 27cm high. Linseed oil finish.

All comments, positive or negative, red or green, up or down, sane or insane, most welcome.

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Oh, I like this a lot! Especially the gap in the legs. And the lines of the feet. And the way the panel across the top ties the whole “divided in two” theme together. I would certainly not call this “chunky” but rather “robust.” For goodness sake, it is strong enough to hold a cat! I don’t think a handle in the middle of the contrasting stripe would have been a bad thing – but it IS your stool/table (stable?). I am going to try to copy this one.

Only two hours to go till your numbers go nuts as you scale the mountain to the top 3, but even if you die on the slopes I would say that you’ve finally found the number of chunk style. This is superb, right up there with the Andar Proibido, the Reitveld and the Megalithic box. You nailed the silhouette and the grain flow though my favourite detail is the angled under-brace. Your wife is quite right and I will be copying this. gene

Nice cat too… Siamese or Himalayan?He’s a castaway – either from some people who didn’t want him, or a mother who didn’t want him, or couldn’t keep him, or….We think siamese.

I would certainly not call this “chunky” but rather “robust.”We also have ”stout”, ”beefy” and ”bold”.You say tomato, I say tomato :-)

Only two hours to go till your numbers go nuts as you scale the mountain to the top 3, but even if you die on the slopes I would say that you’ve finally found the number of chunk styleSome freak gusts of wind pushed other projects to the summit before me – so there at the top you’ll find some mushrooms and a bench – excellent combination, in my view :-)

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